Star Trek Online Discussion Thread - Delta Rising

It’s mostly meant for new players who have found the game via Discovery.

You are correct. No time travel this time.

 

Curious as I play a science captain as my main Fed character, how much does it actually hurt to fly a non-science ship? Cuz, the Walker Class IIRC is considered a cruiser (engineering).

 

You can fly any ship with any class fine.
I won’t hurt you.

My Tac officer flies mainly cruisers

 

Lmao whoops, I forgot a letter.

 

I would prefer to play with my main 25th century captain.

 

Awesome. Cuz I'll be honest most of the Fed science ships once you get past the Intrepid and Luna Class are kinda fugly.

I hope not. You know, despite my handle, I'm a very sweet person.

 

Career really only matters for ground. The only thing is you'll want to respect your trees, especially if you have a full blue tree as most of that will go to waste. So you'll need to buy a token. But I guess if you have the funds for a Crossfield, that shouldn't be a problem.

Insert T6-Nova meme here.

 

Crossfield (Discovery) is a science vessel. And a damn sweet one TBH but still fugly. Walker Class is the Shenzhou. Which IMO is one of the prettiest Trek ships evar!!

 

Oops. My brain went awry there. Wasn't paying attention. I guess I thought the Walker class was an escort and didn't make the connection.

Anyway, I assume it's a lockbox ship and still expensive.

 

The Walker Class was a Lobi purchase so yeah, I’m hoping that with the release of AoD it will either be on the c-store or possibly the exchange. Cuz I really want to fly that ship.

 

I just made a brand new freep account for something different. Gonna have a go with the 2xp and Pheonix pack weekend. And it turns out I still have to install the game. I must have taken it off this PC.

I've barely played at all this year, save for a little time back during the Delta event and then made a Jemmie and played through VIL once during launch day.

 

I got ya beat. I haven't played in about 2 years but the AoD not-an-expansion-but-it's-totally-an-expansion resparked my interest.

 

It's been on the exchange since it launched. All Lockbox/Lobi ships can be traded on the exchange.

And don't hold out any hope for a C-Store version, they've never put a Lockbox/Lobi ship for direct purchase on the store before.

 

Oooooooooh. I want it!!

 

AoD Starter Pack announced.

https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11006973-the-age-of-discovery-starter-pack!

• 12 Additional Inventory Slots
• 1x Large (150,000) Experience Bonus Pool
• Discovery-era Phaser Sniper Rifle
• Discovery-era Phaser Stun Bolt Pistol
• Tardigrade Vanity Pet
• Walker-class Prototype Light Exploration Cruiser - A brand new scaling starship!

The Weapons, Ship and Vanity Pet can be reclaimed on multiple characters, but the Boosts and inventory slots can only be claimed on the character that buys the pack.
The Walker scales in power until level 30

750 Zen for a short time after AoD launches, then it's jumping to 1500

 

I think the scaling ship is dumb. Dunno why the couldn't just make it $20 with a proper T6 like the others.

 

I think it's a great idea. I think T1 ships suck as you only have them for about an hour, depending on how fast you level. This way you can stick with just one ship for a longer period of time.

Two new lore blogs (Europa Class, and Shran's Great-Grandson)
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11007793-"the-past-reborn"
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11007813-"the-will-to-fight"

T6 Europa Class Stats (25th Century Nimitz variant)
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11007803-the-stats-of-the-europa-class!

Discovery Uniforms will be free for all Feds starting tomorrow, for an indefinite period of time.
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11007823-free-discovery-uniforms!

 

That's my point. The Romulan, Dominion, and Temp Agent packs all come with a T6 for $5 more. And you can use those forevs.

 

They probably didn't do it because they didn't have time

 

Again. That's the whole point.

For a 25% increase in price, you get something infinitely more valuable. It's a [realtive] ripoff, you're paying a little less to get a lot less - under the guise of 'convenience'. Which I didn't even know was a thing. It takes me about 30 seconds to switch ships while leveling.

Cryptic has been frog in potting people with their shenanigans for a few years now (in all their games), and I'm getting pretty fucking sick and tired of it.

*And by "Cryptic" I really mean PWE or ARC or whatever they're called now.